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ADIF Map Plotter

Drop in ADIF logs and turn them into a footprint map, using grid squares when you have them and sensible fallbacks when you do not. Browse it live, go fullscreen, or export KML.

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Sometimes the log has a lovely tidy grid square. Sometimes it has a POTA reference, a callsign, and a vague sense of optimism. This tool takes what it can get.

Upload one or more ADIF files and it will try to place each contact on a map using the best location clue available, then tell you how trustworthy that guess was before you export the result as KML or just fling the map fullscreen and take a screenshot.

ADIF to map

Feed it logs. It will work out where the contacts probably were.

Resolution order is simple enough: exact coordinates if they exist, then grid squares, then references, then callsign or region hints if that is all the log has to offer. It is a map, not a hallucination engine, so uncertain points stay visibly uncertain.

No logs loaded yet. The world remains politely unplotted.

Once you load a log, this page will plot the resolved contacts on a proper map, separate the confident points from the hand-wavy ones, and let you export the result as KML or go fullscreen for screenshots.

The resolver is intentionally honest. A proper grid square is better than a POTA prefix, and a POTA prefix is better than squinting at a callsign and making a very broad regional guess. The page keeps those distinctions visible so you know when you are looking at a footprint and when you are looking at an informed shrug.